Not only are offerings made to rivers by generals, who wish to cross them,1 but rivers possess their own priests or revert), and sacrifices and dedications are made to them.2 There are even suggestions in myth that at one time the practice of offering human sacrifices to rivers was not unknown.3 Greek literature and mythology are full of Acheloos and the river gods.4

The reason for the sanctity of rivers in Greece is largely to be sought in the value naturally attaching to water in a dry and thirsty land, and also perhaps to marked characteristics